St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-08


you. You will meet well educated peo-
pie here whom you will be proud to call
your friends. Remember, the most in
telligent and enterprising people are al
ways the first settlers. Do net fear the
cold winters. You will not find them
here more than where you are in the
East, and there is health drawn with
every breath of this atmosphere; very
unlike the winters in the Eastern states,
which every year bring their harvest of
victims to diphtheria, pneumonia and
.malarial feyerS. j. III. LOCKWOOD.
Steele County.
Hope, Oct. IL have frequently been
asked to give, in my opinion, the adj
-vantages of this new country over the
advantages of Vermont. / think I
ought to know something about Yer
mont farming, as farmed in that state
nearly twenty-five years, and am sat
iSfied that the chances of success here
are far ahead of those East. Eastern
farming needs so much man. ing to
keep the soil productive. One other
reason, and very good one: Farms are
high, and young men without capital
cannot buy on credit. 1t will take a life
of economy and thrift to pay for a farm.
eminent land, and railroad land can be
secured on very easy terms. We have
one of the best Of soils, from eighteen
inches to two and one-half feet in
depth, that will grow anything
that can be raised in New England. We
have grain crops of wheat. oats, rye and
barley, and millet for feeding stock.
One farmer near our town has millet
that will cut nearly four tons to the
acre. which makes the finest feed for
all kinds of stock. do not think there
is better country in the West for rails
ing potatoes, that mature early and
make fine market potato. One of our
farmers here propagated potato in
four years that cannot be beat in the
states anywhere. There are no Colo
We raise root crops of all kinds without
manure. Can raise all kinds of small
fruits. Can raise the finest gardens;
get new peas and new potatoes by the
first of July.
Will not the soil run out? Yes, in time,
but not in one generation, with good
farming. In the northern part of our
county, where land was first taken,
there have been fourteen crops taken
off the same piece of land-large crops
each year-and the soil is ploughed
only one-fourth of its depth. and the
clay SubSoH here has all the properties
for grain raising.
For stock the prairie grass IS far
ahead of any New England pasture in
fdttening cattle or making butter. With
modern convenienceS our butter will
Z compete with the best. There is always
plenty of grass. When the government
land is all taken, preventing our getting
grass, timothy can be raised with sue
cess. Sheep do finely and are very profit
able. | can testify to this, as / have a
fine flock of them. ALI kinds of stock
will fatten readily on hay during the
winter months.
>, There are many in different parts of
: the country who came here within the
last five years that are independent.
What one can do others can do.
:. I have never been sorry I came to-
Dakota. and l think there never was a
country in the United States that has
Increased in wealth and population,
with schools, colleges and churches like
Dakota. Those that came to the from
tier, if their lives are spared to see Da-
kota ten years from to-day, can be but
proud of her record.
We have railroads running and build
ing in all directions. Our railroad, the
st. Paul, Minneapolis &c Manitoba, gives
good reductions to those coming West
on any of its branches, and are doing
much in giving counties along their
road blooded bulls, which no other rail
road does, tony knowledge.
HENRY ID. CARPENTER.
The Cardinal Passed BY.
Special to the Globe.
FARGO, Oct. There was much dis
appointment in Fargo over the fact that
Cardinal Gibbons was obliged to pass
through in the night without an oppor-
tunity for the local reception that had
been prepared for him. Ali the Catho-
lie and labor societies had arranged to
meet him at Moorhead and escort him to
Fargo. The mayor had prepared an
erudite and enthusiastic reception effort,
comprising about all he knows about
the Catholic church and Christianity
and its great lights generally 1t was
probably the browning effort of his life
in that sphere, and will give not at
Sunday Argus. Father Collins, the
excellent local priest, accompanied the
cardinal to Jamestown, and returned
with his deep regrets at the irreparable
loss he had sustained. Father Collins
Wednesday night delivered very able
address to the Knights of Labor upon
the Catholic church as the friend of the
rlaboring man, which was well received.
Notes From Britton.
Special to the Globe.
BRITTON, Oct. I'm the summer of
1886 this place made building Improve
ments to the extent of nearly 100000,
and by the present prospects the figures
for this summer will not fall short of
that amount.
last week with j. j. Aplin WorShipful
master, A. S. Parmerlee senior warden
and A. A. Warren junior warden. Hon.
j. G. Adams, of Webster, was here to in
struct the brethren.
Local option is to be voted on in this
county Nov.S. The vote is quite evenly
divided.
Our farmers never had as large crops
as they have harvested this season.
: The average will be about tweety-four
Bushels.
1sf Local Option at Redfield.
Special to the Globe.
AREDF1ELD, Oct. 7.-William Grant, of
Tecomah, Neb., an account of whose
arrest was given in the GLOBE a few
days ago, went back quietly to his home
with the sheriff without requisition.
!, The local option campaign was inaugu-
Gated here last night by public meeting
at the Methodist church. A regular
plan of campaign has been mapped out,
and within the next few weeks cOnsid-
efable work will be done. There is but
little doubt that the PrOhibitionists will
carry the county, as there is but little, if
any, active work being done on the
other side.
r 1t Was Fizzle.
Special to the Globe